Overview

This book tries to apply James J. Gibson's ecological approach to picture perception to questions of visual communication and aesthetics; it provides examples from architecture, industrial design and the arts, to testify the feasibility of this application. Additional theoretical analyses, partly based on cross-cultural and clinical research, help supplement Gibson's basic conjecture, that picture perception is essentially based on invariants of optical structure, rather than interpretation.

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Author:   Klaus Landwehr
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9783540522003

ISBN 10:   354052200
Pages:   143
Publication Date:   21 February 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The ecological optics of information surfaces.- I: Pictures, plans, drawings, and displays - surrogate information and means for communication.- 2. Picture perception as indirect perception.- 3. The communicative potential of pictures: eleven theses.- 4. On two distinct and quintessential kinds of pictorial representation.- 5. Meaning, presence and absence in pictures.- 6. Decomposing optical stimulus information by pictures.- 7. Communicating design ideas: a pictorial essay.- 8. Functional versus dysfunctional aspects of information surfaces.- II: Ecological aesthetics.- 9. The semiotics and aesthetics of surfaces and surface layouts.- 10. Ecological perception and aesthetics: pictures are affordance-free.- 11. The aesthetic experience as perceiving the general affordance of explorability.- 12. Epilogue: Availability and affordances of information from information surfaces.- Author index.- List of contributors.

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